“Beginnings are scary, ends are usually sad and heartbreaking, but what matters most are the moments we have shared in between…”
It has not been long when I thought of everything I’ve been through in the past and current high school years. All the times, moments, laughter, tears, jokes, fears, ASSIGNMENTS, and songs I’ve shared and overcome with my precious classmates, teachers, and most especially my treasured friends, have etched in my heart like a mark from a burning iron rod incising to my skin- impossible to erase.
I can’t exactly remember what happened the moment I stepped inside our classroom when I was a freshman. All I know is there was a feeling of anxiousness and excitement all at the same time. Various impressions we’re running wildly inside my mind: how would my day go? How different would it be? How will my classmates look? Will all my teachers be terror? Will the subjects be harder? Will I be in the same class as my friends? And a whole lot more. But all of my answers were answered through that same day. Turns out it was something different yet refreshing and amusing. That day I went home with a big and vibrant smile from the new found diversity. From then on I thought this, by far, is the best time of my life- and I’m planning to keep it that way.
It was not a bad choice to keep my high school life as the best time of my life. Being with my high school friends, there was never any vague moment. Each time spent with them there is always a thing or two that would set the room on fire. Every happy time with them are equally the happiest moments I’ve shared with them. If I would take it all down, a piece of paper would never be enough. We were happy just like that. Thinking how we randomly laugh and cry, how we sang our favourite songs in an out-of-tune manner whenever we ride buses going somewhere, how we cried for half days and wish for classes to be cut, how we foolishly played around whenever teachers are busy or absent. All of those simple acts of foolishness made our high school life really fun and worth remembering-especially when you’ve done those things without a feel of pretentions and pure enjoyment with your classmates and best buddies. Not to mention those crazy little times when get to spend a sleepover just to finish a project, which reminded me the hardest project I’ve ever dealt with way back when I was in year two. It was our last project in Biology wherein we have to make a bone structure of a human leg and study a Xylem Vessel and its functions. We spent hours, days, and sleepless nights just to finish everything in the allotted time. We even made a presentation for the oral defense which is another phase of our project. It was really hard especially when you have no idea and you only have internet references to run into. Nonetheless everything was worth it when we got the grade we wanted and we also got to spend time with each other, eat a lot and have fun.
It was really funny how vast time went on. Last year seemed to be just yesterday. Truth to be told, my very first day in the last year of high school wasn’t really enthralling as what I’ve experienced with the past year levels. I mean how can I be excited if all the faces I’ve met that day were the same faces I’ve been with for the past years? Even our transferee was someone I knew way back before. My mind, by that time, made an assumption that this school year would be tedious and tiresome since we have to work extra hard for all the preparations needed for college. But life, as they say, is indeed unpredictable. What I believed was a year of mediocre revolved 180 degrees at the last quarter.
I never expected that a simple prank game with one of my best friend would result into something serious, painful yet enriching. We totally got bored of our lives and plan to pretend that we are arguing over something. The next day we played our parts and even got some of our best friends to act too just too make someone cry. But then we realized we just can’t control ourselves from laughing. So we stop midway. Never did I expect for the real thing to happen. What’s worst is that it was followed by another and another, all at the same time. It came unexpectedly and heartbreaking. Fortunately we’ve passed through some of them and though we still have some things going on, I am positive that in no time we’ll be overcoming the remaining obstacles we’re silently yet strongly facing. The boring year we were having turned to be the most challenging for us, most especially for me.
I’ve actually met hundreds of people throughout my life. All of them had denoted me in both positive and negative ways. Some left, some stayed passive, and nevertheless some stayed by my side and never let me face the world alone. I am really thankful for those wonderful people. I don’t know if they knew how greatly they affect me in everything I do. We’re like stars, although different and have been through so much before; we just can’t make the dark sky shine if we won’t have each other and together zone the sky. I deeply love my classmates who became my besties- Bucha, Caren, Danice, Yurina, Kim, Peach, and Baby Joy. Indeed we are different in many aspects but the fact that we manage to get along like how a family does is what I loved most in this sisterhood we have, and now that this school year is coming to an end I can hardly imagine what kind of life would I live once we parted our ways to fulfil our greatest endeavours. That is how much they mean to me.
I know not what may happen in the future. College as they say may be the coolest part of growing up but as we start singing our last graduation song, as we chant our words of thanks, regrets, and sorrys’, and take the final step to the completion of our high school life with tears and smiles, I know, inside my heart nothing beats high school life.
